​Aaron Brown's keynote talks and The Under Simplified Podcast are powered by 25 years of experience as a CIA Operations Officer, Army Ranger, deputy sheriff, and technology entrepreneur. He shares his lessons of leadership, resiliency, and innovation from the hotspots of the world, to the halls of the White House, and kitchen tables in middle America.​

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Topics weave between Technology, Leadership & The Art of Risk

The UnderSimplified Podcast

At the Crossroads of Technology, Culture, and Society

​About
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​Aaron Brown

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Aaron has over two decades of experience in law enforcement, Army Special Operations, and national security, including as a senior operations officer and field leader at the Central Intelligence Agency. Aaron is a proven problem solver and innovator, with experience leading complex, dynamic, and multimillion dollar intelligence missions across the globe, in war zones, austere environments, throughout the Near East, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Aaron supported CIA’s response to the Khowst Base bombing, one of the deadliest events in CIA history, and served as a leadership executive assistant during the Usama bin Ladin operation, one of CIA's greatest successes. 

Aaron is a recognized expert in the exponential risk of surveillance technology. He has advised numerous intelligence community programs about such risks and developed advanced solutions for this rapidly growing threat–hundreds have attended his sensitive talks on technology, including CIA executives and senior leaders from the Special Operations community. Aaron‘s final role at CIA was as Deputy Chief of Operations for Southeast Asia, where he gained deep regional expertise. He has earned numerous Meritorious Unit Citations, 14 other CIA Awards, and the 2015 CIA Director’s Award for Mission Impact in a Foreign Language (Arabic).
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Aaron currently works as a senior director at an open source intelligence company he helped found. He helps private industry protect themselves from foreign nation state adversaries like China and Russia. He also helped found a nonprofit working to protect the U.S.’s critical infrastructure and technological edge. He advises DoD, CIA, the National Security Council, Department of Commerce, and numerous big tech companies, and is a guest lecturer at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. 

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